Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain.
Levy, Michelle.
Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain. /Michelle Levy. - , Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020. - x, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). : 24cm.
This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which handwritten documents were written, shared, altered and preserved, and explores the functions they served as instruments of expression and sociability. By demonstrating how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, this study illuminates the complex entanglements between the media of script and print."-
9781474457071
Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035
English literature
Great Britain
Romanticism
English Great Britain
820.9145 LEV
Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain. /Michelle Levy. - , Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020. - x, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). : 24cm.
This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which handwritten documents were written, shared, altered and preserved, and explores the functions they served as instruments of expression and sociability. By demonstrating how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, this study illuminates the complex entanglements between the media of script and print."-
9781474457071
Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035
English literature
Great Britain
Romanticism
English Great Britain
820.9145 LEV
